Special Places


Melita Site Inventory

Page 3 :  Commercial Sites

336.D.11 Carel's Grocery Building

Construction Date:  1928
Location:  Main Street

Origins:

Store built by  by H.E. Maycock in 1904
1912 – Russell F. Modeland
Burned 1928
Thomas McJannet
Carels family 1947

Features: - Grocery for over 60 years




336.D.12 Briggs Livery Stable Building

Construction Date:  1903
Location:  Ash Street

Origins: E. Briggs
A.M. Thompson Export Seed Co. 1942
C.P. Cook 1962

Original Building Function:

Livery Stable operated by:
J.H.G Cheyne 1919
James Greig 1920
Gordon Cheyne 1922
Known as the “Seed & Feed: Building

Features: - Room for 68 horses
- harness room and living room – second floor


336.D.13 Manitoba Telephone System Building

Construction Date:  1951
Location:  Souris Street


Origins:

Mantitoba Telephone System
Closed 1976

Original Building Function:

House

Features: -  replaced older building (next door) when increasing demand and space requirements after dial phones were introduced  and it became a regional office serving Lyleton. Medora-Napinka, Pierson, Tilston, Goodlands and Waskada



336.D.14 Former Pool Elevator

Construction Date:  1956
Location:  Front Street

Origins: Lake of the Woods Milling

Original Building Function:

Elevator

Features: - now in private hands
 



333.D.15 UGG Elevator

Construction Date:  1956
Location:  Front Street

Origins:

United Grain Growers

Original Building Function:

Elevator

Features: - now in private hands
 


336.D.16 Kennedy Block

Construction Date: 
Location:  Front Street

Origins:

A.J. Kennedy
International Harvester Dealership – residence above.

Percy Brockington
Hector Townsend

Original Building Function: Business Block



336.D.17 Murray Implements Building

Construction Date:  ca. 1927
Location:  Back Lane - Front Street

Origins:

Bob Murray

Original Building Function:

Minnbeapolis Moline Farm Implements

Features: - pressed metal sheeting on false front